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   Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike   
   From: SINNER    
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   Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:25:08 GMT   
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   * David Floyd wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
      
   > In message of Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Hadron writes   
   >>Chris writes:   
   >>   
   >>> Only one thing is holding me back from moving to Ubuntu - and that is   
   >>> that I want to keep using my email client, Turnpike.   
   >>> I've never found anything better in the twelve years I've been using   
   >>> Turnpike   
   >>> and it won't run under WINE because it's a Windows namespace shell   
   >>> extension - i.e. an extension of Windows Explorer.   
   >>>   
   >>> Would it be possible to run a fairly stripped down XP in a virtual   
   >>> machine?   
   >>   
   >>Run a full one.   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> Which would be the best virtualisation software for that?   
   >>   
   >>VMWare.   
   >>   
   >    
   > Nobody has mentioned Virtual Box. I get on with that better than    
   > VMWare.   
   > And it's for the same reason - Turnpike.   
   >    
   > Although I do run Thunderbird on Ubuntu.   
   >    
   > David   
   >    
      
   I cant imagine running a VM to run an email client, anyone got a cannon?    
   I see a fly on the window.   
      
   --    
   David   
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